A 'Truce' on Social Issues? Get Real

Is Mitch Daniels afraid to talk about abortion?

By

William McGurn

Feb. 7, 2011 7:18 p.m. ET

If you think going to war is contentious, look at what happens when you call for a truce. Ask Mitch Daniels.

In a June profile by the Weekly Standard's Andrew Ferguson, Indiana's Republican governor declared that to get the country running again, "the next president would have to call a truce on the so-called social issues." Since then, Mr. Daniels has been digging a bigger and bigger hole for himself by trying to redefine "truce" without abandoning the word. Now it's back in the news after another...